238 Bees How They Work. 



19. HONEY-BEES are of three kinds: the 

 Queens, the Working-bees, and the Drones. 



20. The QUEEN-BEE is the ruler of the hive 



and the mother of all the young 

 Bees in it. 



21. The WORKERS are very 

 intelligent and industrious. They 

 form themselves into companies. 

 One division or company roams the fields and 

 gardens in search of food ; another builds the 

 cells ; another helps those which come back 

 with heavy loads, or feed and nurse the young 

 Bees. All make the most of their time, and 

 of every inch of room, for their house answers 

 both as nursery and storehouse. There are also 

 house-cleaners, sentinels and fighters. Even in 

 a single day they have been known to make 

 4,000 cells. 



22. The royal cell which they build for their Queen, is 

 made much larger than any of the others. 



23. When the cells are ready, the Queen lays in them a 

 great many eggs, from each of which comes a larva, grub, 

 or worm (see paragraph 8). The food of bees consists 

 chiefly of pollen and sweet juices or fluids of flowers. 



24. The WORKERS have little brushes on their legs 

 which also hold the pollen and otherwise help them in 

 their work. They have feelers or arms which enable them 

 to work and feel their way in the dark. By these feelers 

 they seem to tell one another the news of the day. If the 



